THE BREEDING OF MULES 191 



ed to cross advantageously with them, just as the 

 Cashmere goat crosses on the common hairy 

 goat. His progeny seemed rapidly to lose the lead- 

 ing traits of their dams, and to inherit in a re- 

 markable degree the color and outward charac- 

 teristics of their sire. Four years later Dr. Davis 

 imported in South Carolina another Catalan jack. 

 He was 16 hands high and of great weight. This 

 jack, Mammoth, was mated to the young War- 

 rior jennies then just maturing, thus making the 

 second cross of pure blood, and upon these two 

 crosses rest to-day the breeding of the race of 

 jacks known throughout the United States as the 

 Kentucky Jack. These Kentucky jacks are still 

 popular, and last year the British Government 

 bought a number of them to take to India. 



Mr. J. L. Jones, of Columbia, Tennessee, is a 

 recognized authority on mule breeding, and I pre- 

 fer to give my readers his counsel in a matter with 

 which he is better acquainted than I am. 



He says : 



"There are two kinds or classes of the mule, 

 viz., one the produce of the male ass or jack and 

 the mare; and the other, the offspring of the stal- 



